THE DAILY TEN · 2026-06-30

AI Wont Be Substitute for Human Workers, OpenAI Economist Says

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Also: Nvidia competitor Etched hits 5B valuation, 1B in sales for AI chip; and Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench that uses existing Claude models like Opus 4.8 to integrate 60 scientific databases and specialized toolkits. Every story links to its primary source.

Curated by Gaurav · June 30, 2026

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Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench that uses existing Claude models like Opus 4.8 to integrate 60 scientific databases and specialized toolkits (Rebecca BellanTechCrunch)

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Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench that uses existing Claude models like Opus 4.8 to integrate 60+ scientific databases and specialized toolkits  —  Anthropic introduced Claude Science on Tuesday, an AI workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research …

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OpenAI engineers reportedly halved the cost of inference — pricing cuts could follow

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Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: OpenAI engineers earlier this month told some colleagues they had figured out a way to more than halve the cost of inference  —  We closely track efforts by Anthropic, Google and OpenAI to get access to more server chips to run their models.  But we don't talk enough about the work …

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